Word: faith
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Vesper service yesterday afternoon was unusually well attended, considering the stormy waather. Dr. McPherson preached his sermon from the text: "Who through faith from weakness were made strong." Hebrews...
...McPherson spoke of man's need of faith for the development of every side of his character; physical, mental and moral. As faith in the doctor's care is indispensable to the patient's easy recovery; as faith is the very soul of all intellectual and artistic powers, thus also, unless the whole universe is a mockery, man must feel that it inspires him with faith in the divine love which created all things...
...McPherson spoke of the necessity of faith in our modern life and read several passages in the Old and New Testaments, exemplifying the ideal of simple trust in God. In our own day genuine Christian faith is at once a vision and a venture, yet, although its visionary character leaves room for possible doubt and makes it seem perhaps fantastical, history has shown, as in the case of Rome before Christ's coming and of China today, that when men lose this visionary trust a low moral state is the inevitable result. With Christ returned the vision...
...Faith of Reason," A. C. Train...
...rather enter upon the absorbing study of religious growth in its relations with all other growth; bound by the same perfect law which rules all things. If faith, hope, love do exist, they exist not as accidents, but as natural products of definite forces...